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Chinese Clinical Trial Register
The Chinese Clinical Trial Register (ChiCTR) is China's national clinical trial registry, launched in 2004 by the Chinese Cochrane Centre at West China Hospital, Sichuan University, in Chengdu.
Chinese Crested Dog
Chinese Crested Dog: toy companion breed in Hairless and Powderpuff varieties, 11–13 inches, caused by a FOXI3 mutation with linked tooth defects; AKC-recognized 1991, median UK lifespan 13.4 years.
Chinese edible mushroom industry
China's edible mushroom industry (食用菌) has been the world's largest producer and consumer of edible fungi since 2000, led by shiitake, wood ear, and oyster mushrooms.
Chinese food therapy (食疗)
Chinese food therapy (食疗, shiliao) is the traditional Chinese medicine branch using foods classified by thermal nature, five flavors, and organ affinity to prevent and treat illness, regulated in China through the 110-item food-drug substances catalog.
Chinese giant salamander
Chinese giant salamander (大鲵, da ni), Andrias spp., the world's largest amphibian at up to 2 m, a Critically Endangered Chinese species complex of at least seven lineages, depleted by food-trade harvesting and farming.
Chinese herbology
Chinese herbology (中药学, zhongyao xue), also called Chinese materia medica, is the herbal branch of traditional Chinese medicine, covering the properties, processing, and combination of plant, animal, and mineral remedies.
Chinese mantis
Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis), a large Asian mantid introduced to the eastern U.S. in 1896; 65–85 mm, broad generalist diet, sold as biocontrol though extension guidance says ineffective.
Chinese mitten crab (中华绒螯蟹)
Chinese mitten crab (中华绒螯蟹, Eriocheir sinensis, dazhaxie), a catadromous burrowing crab native to Yellow Sea rivers in China and Korea, farmed as a delicacy in China and an IUCN top-100 invasive species in Europe and North America.
Chinese mystery snail
Chinese mystery snail (Cipangopaludina chinensis, syn. Bellamya chinensis), a large live-bearing viviparid freshwater snail native to East Asia, invasive across North America since an 1892 San Francisco food-market record and in Europe since 2009; reaches over 40 snails per square meter and competes with native snails.
Chinese paddlefish (白鲟)
Chinese paddlefish (白鲟, Psephurus gladius), also called Chinese swordfish, was a Yangtze-endemic paddlefish up to 7 m long, declared extinct by IUCN in 2022 after functional extinction by 1993 from overfishing and damming.
Chinese pond mussel (背角无齿蚌)
Chinese pond mussel (背角无齿蚌, Sinanodonta woodiana, formerly Anodonta woodiana) is a Yangtze-native unionid mussel, a cryptic species complex, and a major invader of Europe, Asia, and Africa via fish-host glochidia.
Ching-Hon Pui
Ching-Hon Pui (裴正康) is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis whose work on childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia raised cure rates from about 50 to over 90 percent.
Ching‐Juh Lai
Ching-Juh Lai is a virologist at the National Institutes of Health known for molecular work on influenza A virus, simian virus 40, and dengue virus vaccines.
Chinin hydrochlorid
Chinin hydrochlorid (quinine hydrochloride, CAS 7549-43-1) is the hydrochloride salt of the cinchona alkaloid quinine, formulated mainly as 300 mg/mL parenteral solution for treating severe malaria by rate-controlled infusion.
Chinkara (चिंकारा)
Chinkara (चिंकारा), or Indian gazelle (Gazella bennettii), a small ~23 kg desert gazelle of India, Pakistan, and Iran; IUCN Least Concern but decreasing, Thar Desert stronghold, up to 89% habitat loss projected by 2070.
Chinmay Saha
Chinmay Saha is an Indian plant–microbe researcher at HHMI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for bacterial colonization of plants and rice nitrogen nutrition.
Chinnodbhavadi kvatha curna
Chinodbhavadi kvatha curna (Chinnodbhavādi Kvātha Cūrṇa) is an Ayurvedic coarse-powder decoction formula from the Sahasrayoga and Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI I 4:7), dosed at 48 g, mainly for Amlapitta (gastric ulcer), with Guduchi and Vasa as lead ingredients.
Chinomethionat
Chinomethionat (quinomethionate, oxythioquinox), CAS 2439-01-2, is a quinoxaline contact fungicide and acaricide for powdery mildew and spider mites on fruit; first registered 1968, withdrawn in the EU in 2012, ADI 0.006 mg/kg bw/day.
Chinook salmon
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), king salmon, the largest Pacific salmon, anadromous from California to Alaska's Chukchi Sea; prized food fish, key prey of Southern Resident killer whales, with ESA-listed populations and Yukon River fishing bans.
Chionea
Chionea, snow flies, wingless crane flies (Limoniidae) active on winter snow in the northern hemisphere; walk at body temperatures to −10°C, self-amputate freezing legs, and use antifreeze proteins and likely mitochondrial heat production.
Chionis
Chionis (sheathbills) is a genus of two all-white, pigeon-sized shorebird species in the family Chionidae: the snowy sheathbill of Antarctica and the black-faced sheathbill of subantarctic Indian Ocean islands.
Chionoecetes bairdi
Chionoecetes bairdi, the southern Tanner crab (Rathbun, 1924), is a shelf-dwelling true crab of the eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea, harvested commercially in Alaska since 1961, marketed as snow crab, and able to hybridize with C. opilio.
Chionoecetes opilio
Chionoecetes opilio, snow crab or queen crab (Cancer opilio, Fabricius 1788), a cold-water Oregoniidae crab of North Pacific and North Atlantic floors; major trap fisheries in Alaska, Canada, and the Barents Sea; males to 150 mm carapace, 1.4 kg.
Chionomys
Chionomys, snow voles, is a genus of three arvicoline rodent species (C. nivalis, C. gud, C. roberti) of European, Anatolian, and Caucasian mountains, once a Microtus subgenus, with a Caucasian origin.
ChIP-exo
ChIP-exo, also known as the ChIP-exo assay, is a chromatin immunoprecipitation method introduced in 2011 that digests DNA with lambda exonuclease to map protein-DNA binding sites at near base-pair resolution.
ChIP-on-chip
ChIP-on-chip, also written ChIP-chip, is a genomics method combining chromatin immunoprecipitation with DNA microarrays to map protein-DNA binding and histone modifications across the genome; introduced around 2000-2001, it was later displaced by ChIP-seq.
ChIP-seq
ChIP-seq, or chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing, maps genome-wide binding sites of transcription factors and histone modifications, replacing ChIP-chip after its 2007 introduction with higher resolution and lower noise.
Chipmunk
Chipmunk: small striped ground squirrel (Tamias, Neotamias, Eutamias) of North America plus the Siberian chipmunk; cheek-pouched seed cacher, winter torpor, 25 species, 2–3 year wild lifespan.
Chirag R. Parikh
Chirag R. Parikh is an Indian-born American nephrologist, Director of the Division of Nephrology at Johns Hopkins, known for the TRIBE-AKI consortium studying biomarkers that detect acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.
Chirlmin Joo
Chirlmin Joo is a South Korean-born biophysicist working in single-molecule biophysics at Delft University of Technology, known for studies of Argonaute proteins, microRNA, and CRISPR biology, and for developing single-molecule protein sequencing.